Clarke County AL

Clarke County, located in southwestern Alabama, was established on December 10, 1812, making it one of the earliest designated counties within the state. Its establishment, initially part of the Mississippi Territory before Alabama achieved statehood in 1819, underscores its historical significance. The county seat, Grove Hill, became the center of governance after being moved from Clarkesville in 1832, reflecting the shifting dynamics of settlement and administration in the area. Clarke County is bounded by the Tombigbee River to the west, a crucial artery for trade and transportation in the 19th century, facilitating the county’s economic development and growth. The county’s early European-American settlers were drawn to its fertile lands and timber resources, areas previously inhabited by the Choctaw Native American tribe, making it a region rich in both indigenous and settler history. For genealogists, Clarke County provides extensive records from the early 19th century onwards, including land deeds, court records, and vital statistics, offering a comprehensive view of the families who lived, worked, and shaped the area through periods of war, economic change, and societal evolution.

Choctaw Burial Customs

Thus the greater part of the southern country was claimed and occupied by tribes belonging to the Muskhogean group, who were first encountered by the Spanish explorers of the early sixteenth century, and who continued to occupy the region until removed during the first half of the nineteenth century. For three centuries they are known to have remained within the same limited area. On the west were the Choctaw, whose villages extended over a large part of the present State of Mississippi and eastward into Alabama. And to this tribe should undoubtedly be attributed the many burial mounds now encountered … Read more

Mobile Tribe

Mobile Indians (meaning doubtful). A Muskhogean tribe whose early home was probably Mauvila, or Mavilla, supposed to have been at or near Choctaw Bluff on Alabama river, Clark County, Alabama, where DeSoto, in 1540, met with fierce opposition on the part of the natives and engaged in the most obstinate contest of the expedition. The town was then under the control of Tascalusa  probably an Alibamu chief. If, as is probable, the Mobile tribe took part in this contest, they must later have moved farther south, as they are found on Mobile bay when the French began to plant a … Read more

Clarke County, Alabama Census Records

  1830 Clarke County, Alabama Census Free 1830 Census Form for your Research Hosted at Ancestry.com – Ancestry Free Trial  1830 Clarke County, Census (images and index) $ 1810-1890 Accelerated Indexing Systems $ Hosted at USGenWeb Archives Census Image Project 1830 Clarke County, Alabama Census Hosted at Tracking Your Roots 1830 Clarke County, AL Census Hosted at Vidas Index 1830 Clarke County, Alabama Federal Census Index Hosted at Clark’s Deep South Genealogy 1830 Census Images Hosted at Census Guide 1830 U.S. Census Guide 1840 Clarke County, Alabama Census Free 1840 Census Form for your Research Hosted at Ancestry.com – Ancestry … Read more

Alabama Mortality Census Records

1850 Madison County Alabama Mortality Schedule optimized

The 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1885 censuses included inquiries about persons who had died in the twelve months immediately preceding the enumeration. The 1850, 1960, 1870, and 1880 mortality census for Alabama all survived. Mortality schedules list deaths from 1 June through 31 May of 1849–50, 1859–60, 1869–70, 1879–80, and 1884–85. They provide nationwide, state-by-state death registers that predate the recording of vital statistics in most states. While deaths are under-reported, the mortality schedules remain an invaluable source of information.

Clarke County, Alabama Cemetery Records

Most of these cemetery listings are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Hosted at Clarke County, USGenWeb Archives Project Bashi Methodist Church Cemetery, Clarke County, Alabama Bassett Creek Cemetery, Clarke Co., Al Bell-Brewer Cemetery – Clarke Co., Al Bethel Cemetery – Clarke County, Al Caller Cemetery — Clarke County, Al Choctaw Corner Cemetery, Clarke, Alabama Old Clarkesville Cemetery — Clarke County, Al Cobb Wilson Cemetery – Coffeville, Clark Co., Al Deas Cemetery In Clarke Co.,Al Elam Cemetery, Clarke, Alabama Forestdale Cemetery – Clarke County, … Read more

North America Indian Names of Places in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana

The Indians all over this continent had names, traditions, religions, ceremonies, feasts, prayers, songs, dances all, more or less, with symbolism and allegory, adapted to circumstances, just as all other races of mankind. But the world has become so familiar with the continued and ridiculous publications in regard to everything touching upon that race of people that a universal doubt has long since been created and established as to the possibility of refinement of thought and nobleness of action ever having existed among the North American Indian race, ancient or modern; and so little of truth has also been learned … Read more